Hegseth is the one who allegedly doesn’t wash his hands and doesn’t believe in germs. He should be removed from power.

Is this a joke?

Many people don’t think. They feel.

When their in-group is going along with something, they go along with it, too. Feels good to them. It’s a high.

That’s it. That’s the problem. It’s a big part of why republicans vote against their real-life interests. They’re more concerned with chasing the high of being part of the in-group. So, sure, Trump might lose a lot of money and influence and everything, but he’s our tribe-mate!

It’s stupid. Worse then children. Worse than dogs.

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The author they’re criticizing, McGinnis, sounds like a real asshole.

File under “some problems have easy solutions but would upset a handful of rich people”, or maybe “…but would upset unqualified idiots”

I think a lot about the job I didn’t get last year. Technical interview was trivial. They said I did very well in the system design. But they ultimately went with someone “more cross functional”. What the fuck does that even mean?

I think it’s just code for “dunno we like the other guy’s vibe better”.

Whoever wrote that quoted bit is an asshole and fool.

They just say stuff. They don’t care if it’s true.

Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to buy each other

Oh my gosh if he died due to lightning strike we could power the world on the cognitive dissonance from all the evangelicals.

Has no one been pointing out to management that even firms like Microsoft are backpedaling on using AI?

Management doesn’t listen to low level people who actually do work. I think this is part of Ed zitron’s “Business Idiot” thesis. Upper management is so far removed from how things actually get done, they are in all measureable ways idiots

Sometimes they also have selfish or stupid side goals, too. Like, the rumor is the company gets a tax break for people going into the office. So now they make people go into the office, even when most of their team is remote. Climate criminals all, but they’re removed from the consequences.

Upper management are fools. Middle management just wants their paycheck, and maybe to rise high enough to become a business idiot themselves.

That’s kind of like “no one goes there anymore - it’s too crowded”

I mean, the one I’m at is mostly doing a hiring freeze. Management is frothing at the mouth over using AI. But there are currently a lot of people working here, some full time and some under dubious “contractor” arrangements.

and I am constantly telling them that in the workplace situation, to not be afraid or hesitate to act on something.

This really depends on the workplace. I’m at a megacorp and trying to fix anything is far more pain and work that just not.

Like I could try to convince them to move off of python3.9 because that’s old and well past end of life. But I need to explain that to my boss, the business lady, some other manager, “the audit team” (whoever the fuck they are), and then grapple with how they have 5-10 years of code and not a single line of automated test coverage.

There’s no reward.

Moore’s argument compels these courts to grapple with the very substantial body of law that defines corporations and their powers as creations of the states. The Alitos and Thomases will doubtless find a way, however implausible, to wriggle around that, but even if the usual suspects on the federal bench proceed in customary pro-business lockstep, actions like Hawaii’s will fuel in many ways the growing populist and popular revolt against oligarchy and corporatocracy.

We know that we have these scumbag “justices” and yet they persist

Are you going to allow states to issue currency?

The book “dying of whiteness” has a whole section about this. They interview a lot of people who are survivors of gun suicide and find that for political reasons they don’t want gun control, even as they admit their loved ones are dead because guns made it so easy to die. One of them even privately says she agrees, but would never say so in public.

I’m out of the loop now, but when I was younger there was a weird divide between the youth/young adult stuff, and adult.

The adult stuff was a lot of traditional “sit and listen to a talk”.

The youth was a lot more hand on, interactive. “Let’s start a bonfire, write down our fears, and throw them into it”. “We got people from the community to teach how to make instruments out of junk”.

I really liked it when I was younger, and met a lot of kids who were very cool.

Maybe I should see what’s on offer around here. I don’t want to go to a “service” but I miss the community sometimes.

That’s like several months of food. Or years worth of video games. That’s so expensive. Even if I was a big fan of the sport, I wouldn’t be able to justify spending that.

There’s some broken nonsense in conservative world views.

Perhaps chief among them (no pun intended) is the idea that hierarchy is good and natural and inevitable. Flowing from that there’s the idea that different rules apply to different people. And the famous “in groups to protect, out groups to bind” thing.

So things like welfare are abhorrent to them. That’s messing with the hierarchy! Some people need to be down in the gutter. Without the underclass, then everything falls apart and all their auffering was for nothing, and their sense of self can’t handle that.